Cardiac contractility modulation with nonexcitatory electric signals improves left ventricular function in dogs with chronic heart failure

Journal of Cardiac Failure

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 69-75

  Morita, Hideaki ^a   Suzuki, George ^a   Haddad, Walid ^b   Mika, Yuval ^b   Tanhehco, Elaine J ^a   Sharov, Victor G ^a   Goldstein, Sidney ^a   Ben Haim, Shlomo ^b   Sabbah, Hani N ^a,c  

^a Henry Ford Heart/Vascular Institute   (United States)

^b Impulse Dynamics   (United States)

^c HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Absolute refractory period; Ejection fraction; Hemodynamics

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CARDIAC CONTRACTILITY MODULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DISEASE MODEL; DOG; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART STIMULATION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEMODYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTORY PERIOD;

EID: 0037299675     PISSN: 10719164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1054/jcaf.2003.8     Document Type: Article

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